The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JOSEPH W. MEANS. of Lawrence county, Pa,
killed a hen recently, and in her he found an
egg which he placed under a sitting hen. The
resultant chicken is as lively as any other, ana
mas four wings.
THERE is town in Scotland where twenty
two men have refused to speak to or recognize
each other for years. because they have differ
ent theories about the creation of the world,
and none of them will give up to the other
NAcHEs, head chief of the Piutc Indians in
Nevada, has turned his tomahawk into noe
and settled down TO farming. He has a fine
crop of wheat, oats and barley, half a mile
long and all the same wide, and he no go hungry
next winter"
ONE hundred and sixteen thousand five hun
dred and fifty mine Germans, "a, 90 English and
Welsh, and 68, 1870 Irish emigrants have landed
In this country in the last twelve months. The
emigrants from all sections, except Canada and
Mexico, numbered 4S4, ll6
JAMES JAMES, o negro living in Cairo, ILL.,, was
celebrating his 135th birthday, when along came
his grandfather and dropped his age back to IS
with such thud that James will have head
ache for month to come. These old pioneers
sometimes get altogether too fresh.
On a very hot afternoon in the beginning of
the week man dressed in the heavy blanket
suit of snowshoe club, and wearing pair of
snoWshOeS on his feet added to the sutferinGS OF
! the New Workers by walking brislly down
Broadway and across the East river bridge.
Mrs DR.. JOHNSON, of Perry, Iowa, although
| having four children and husband to look af
| ter, yet found time to raise 10000 silk worms
| last year, besides running an incubator and
| matching 70 per cent. of fertile eggs doing her
own housework, and going one mile into the
country for food mulberry for silk worms.
| FRANK IVES, aged 20, while sitting with party
| Of young friends in a window in the third story
| of the Teachout building at DesMoines, H.,
| Sunday playfully threatened to fall backward
| to scare the girls present. Finally he said:
| Now | am going sure lost his balance, fell
| through an awning to the pavement and broke
| his neck. He died instantly.
| PERHAPS it win help us through the dog-days
| to read that the Hartford Post predicts an
| early fall and for these reasons: The locust
| sang a week earlier than has been noticed for
| years; the crickets were abnormally soon in
| their coming; the dahla, which is an August
| plant, blossoms in July; the golden-rod adds
| its willowy stalk, with innumerabe pods of
blossom, to the army that is reckoning to
| autumn.
A PORTLAND, MICH, MAN who employed
number of small boys as berry pckers was
much afraid they would be devoured by mos
| quitoes and induced them to wear netting over
| their mugs, continuance which they adopted
with gratitude in their hearts until they diScov-
| cred that there were not only no mosquitoes to
be seen but that the COMPOUNDED netting also
| a concentrated kick for freedom and got there.
ABOUT four months ago in Toledo, Iowa coun-
ty, Ia, man was brought to Jail ON a charge
of murder that was never committed After an
| examination he was released but the citizens of
the place believed him guilty, and made several
| furious attempts TO lynch him. The supposed
| murderer finally succeeded in escaping. Now
| the victim himself has appeared on the scene,
| and the same citizens who were so wild to
| avenge him are engaged in getting up testilno-
mails and subscriptions as an atonement for the
| injury done to the supposed assassin This is
| an excellent example of the dangers of mob
law, that one day calls for halter to string up
| an innocent man and soon afterward hastens to
honor him.
| Mrs. WILLIAM MCKEE DUNN was the daughter
| of the late Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, After Maj.
| Dunn had won her heart he was referred to her
| father. He wrote Mr.. Morrill, a letter form
| ally requesting the hand Of his daughter. Now,
| the Major writes hand that looks like a cross
| between Virginia rail fence and a Chinese
| laundry bill. Mr.. Morrill, sat up with the letter
several nights and finally guessed the contents.
| If, ANYTHING, Morrill's handwriting was worse
| than Dunn's He replied accepting the Major
| as his son-in-law. Neither of the young people
could make out a word of the reply but thew
| guessed it was favorable. OF all the great mum
| Der of visitors at Mrs Dunns house no one has
| yet been able to decipher the two letters
YOUNG MAN at Fort Popham, Me-, the other
| day caught a cod which weighed probably
| thirty pounds, and which he placed in a large
| hogshead and so kept it alive. When the party
| went into the water the young man harnessed
| up the cod with stout Irvine and placed him in
the water He had great deal of sport. and
| finally, after considerable persuasion, allowed
| young lady to try his sea horse. A life pre-
server was procured and fastened on her, and
/ she graSped the reins holding the large cod
| The fish struck out for deep water at a rapid
| pace. The young lady, becoming uneasy
| dropped the reins, but they caught i'll her feet
and II party had not gone to her rescue in q
| sailboat the result would have been disastrous
JOHN CHAMBERLIN, the Unknown caterer and
Washington clubhouse man, has been in Sara
| toga for week. His family ere in the cottage
| of his wife's brother Ned Thorne the actor,
at Pleasure Bay, Long Branch He says he has
lost every bet he has tried 10 make in Saratoga,
| but nevertheless thinks it the most delightful of
| summer places. \ story is told about how he
| got a Senator's vote for his Old Point Comfort
| land grant bill last winter. He had asked Jim
! Young to request Senator Evarts to come off
! the floor and speak with him in the marble
| chamber. Young is one of the clerks and had
access 10 the floor While Young was on his
| mission, Chamberlin spent his time trying to
| secure the vote of General Butler of South Car
DINA. Butler was holding back when Young
| came out and said to Chamberln: bill will be
! here in a moment" The idea Of any one daring
| to speak in such n manner about Senator Evarts
| convulsed Butler with laughter and Chamber
| Inns further arguments We're UNDECIDED. 4 am
| it. 1 am with Bill for the bill"
THE new cruiser Boston. which is now to be
tested for speed prior 10 being regularly put
upon station duty, has had several predecessors
of the same name in the United States navy
Ono Of them, built during the first year of indie
pendence at the place from which she took her
name, mounted 81 guns, and was captured at
Charleston when the British took that city
in 1870, Her successor, built in 1899 was a yes
sci OF 100 tons burden, carrying rs guns and a
crew Of go men. She also fell victim TO the
British, after somewhat longer career Of SER
vice than her predecessor being burned at
Washington by the British when t6ey captured
the national capital in 1914 The next vessel of
this name was built in 1895, and of about the
dimensions of the second Boston but only car.
ricd IL guns. She was lost in the West Indies
about forty years ago having been in service q
score of years All these vessels met rather un
fortunate ends, but it may be trusted that the
luck in this respect will change with the fourth
Boston, which, unlike the other three was not
built in the city whose name she bears.
TIE Vienna Neue F}eic Presoe describes the
members Of the Bulgarian deputation who Of
fcrcd the crown to Prince Ferdinand of Coburg
as stately men Of dark brown complexion In
European travelling dress Only Nehemcd
EGcndi and a priest wore their national cos
tunes. None Of the members were above mid
die age, and some Of them were still young A
Characteristic figure is Shshmano.f a broad.
shouldered, powerful man with energetic fea.
flrpS who offers IA decided coutrnet 20 N I+.tt